GB Women’s handball team played their first matches on home soil since 2012 when they faced Belgium in two friendlies in Edinburgh.
GB lost the first match 31-36. However, they showed great spirit to bounce back from a nine-goal deficit at one point. Kathryn Fudge turned in an impressive display with 13 goals, while Zoe van der Weel beat the keeper eight times.
Fudge and Van der Weel were both on target four times in the second match, an 18-37 defeat. Anna Furman top scored for GB in that game with five goals. Fudge’s total of 17 goals made her the lead ...

We are holding and international tournament on 14th – 16th of August for boys and girls at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Centre. The girls tournament is the Viking Cup and has England, Scotland, Iceland and a Scotland select team taking part. The boys are playing for the BJ Rowland Trophy in memory of the founding father of British Handball. It sees a matches between U17 and U15 Scotland and England teams.
Match schedule:
Friday 14th August
Viking Cup
1700 Scotland U15 v Scotland Select U18
1900 England U16 v Iceland U15
Saturday 15th August
Viking Cup
1200 Scotland Select U18 v ...